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I hope others consider doing the same (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] -5 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Is it really "something wrong" if it works perfectly fine in other browsers?

It just seems like shunning an audience that might have a legitimate concern that could be looked into.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Have you tried using Firefox's auto tab discard extension? It automatically puts tabs which have been inactive for a while to sleep. When you click on a sleeping tab, it wakes up.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 11 months ago

I am using it. I had to turn it off for some sites because it would discard a site that didn't properly save info, so I'd lose data.

Also had to turn it off for youtube because I'd have a stream that hadn't started yet (they can be setup hours before the stream starts), and it wouldn't auto-start because it would get discarded before the stream started so i'd miss some of the stream.

So yes, it helps, but it has it's issues too.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

How can you even see the tabs you have open if you have 600+ tabs open that's insanity. Browsers while leaving that an option where never designed for even viewing that many tabs

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

While i'm not the person who claimed to have 600+, i'd assume that what they do is a mix of:

-Multiple Windows, so the tabs are spread out. Essentially like having different workspaces in an OS
-using the icons to determine what they are.

And lets never talk about what a browser is designed to do. Because I bet if we went into detail we'd find there's not a person in this thread using browsers exactly as how anyone intended them to be used, either because technology at the time never made them think it was possible, or because you know, people are different.

Use-cases is like design 101, designing for things you didn't expect the user to do.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Ofc that is a valid design philosophy but there is a range. At some point it's like asking your tax software to be a video editor too. Should still probably not be context switching that much mentally. Anyone I've ever met who uses lots of tabs is better off with lots of book marks or taking better notes. It's just silly to have that many tabs open no matter how you spin it